Liberty Theatre

6812 Torresdale Avenue,

Philadelphia,
PA19135

Did it really close in 1960 or a couple of years later? I thought I saw Sally Star in “The Outlaws IS Coming!” with the stooges (1965) at the Liberty.
Before it became a catering hall, wasn’t it a sports venue for fights for a short time?
Thanks!

I practically lived in this theater from when I was 6 to 11 years of age. That’s about 1955 to 1960. Admission was 25 cents. My mom would give me 25c and a bag of snacks. The matinee started around 1:00pm, first there were a few cartoons and then 2 movies. If you wanted, you could stay and watch both movies again. They also had some old News films and sometimes films of bike races, and every ticket had a bike number stamped on it, and if you bike won you received something free? Looking back, I would see some of my cousins and their friends, or kids from the neighborhood, or kids from my school, Disston School. I seen movies like, Old Yeller, The Brave One, Run Silent Run Deep, and many other hollywood movies from the 1950’s. Great memories! It was a huge place with 3 sections and one Screen.